014 -- Vital statistics and population in 1749 to 2016

Concepts and definitions
Description
Quality description Population statistics from 1750 to 2000 have been digitised into PDF format in the National Library's Doria service. Publications on Population structure in Doria (in Finnish)
Publications on Vital statistics in Doria (in Finnish)
Publications on Population censuses in Doria (in Finnish)

Year

1789

War years 1789 to 1791

1808

War of Finland 1808 to 1809

1833

Cholera year

1836

Cholera year

1866

Great Famine 1866 to 1868

1891

The figures for the years 1891 to 1939 are based on the number of population
resident in the country as corrected in 1949.

1918

Civil war

1939

The figures for the years 1891 to 1939 are based on the number of population
resident in the country as corrected in 1949.

1940

World War II
Inter-municipal migration 1940 to 1944: Production of statistics
deficient due to the war conditions

1969

1969 to 1970 Migration to Sweden

Information

Live births

Liveborn is the term for a newborn who breaths or shows other signs of life
after birth. Only liveborn children of women living permanently in Finland
are taken into account in the population statistics.

Deaths

Deaths have to be reported immediately either to a physician or to the
police. The health care unit or the physician has to report the death to
the Population Information System or its maintainer. Statistics on deaths
are based on data derived from the Population Register Centre's Population
Information System maintained by local register offices. People who lived
permanently in Finland at the time of their death are entered in the
statistics on deaths in Finland. Death certificates are used at Statistics
Finland for compiling the cause of death statistics, which are published
as a separate series.

Natural increase

Natural increase is the difference of the number of livebirths and deaths.

Inter-municipal migration

delivered to the register office of the new place of residence. The move
is indicated as either a permanent or a temporary one, and once the
register office receives the notice, the register office determines
whether the nature of the move involves a permanent or temporary change
of domicile. Since 1 June 1994, when the Act on the Municipality of
Domicile (201/1994) came into effect, students moving due to their
studies have had the right to register themselves as permanent residents
in the municipality in which they study. Data on the change of dwelling
and place of domicile are transferred in machine-language format to the
Population Information System. The register office of the new place of
residence sends the data on the new place of domicile to the register
office of the former place of residence. (Population Data Act 507/1993
and amendment 202/1994; Act on the Municipality of Domicile 201/1994;
Decree on the Municipality of Domicile 351/1994).

Inter-municipal migration

Migration between municipalities according to the regional division of the statistical
reference year.

Immigration

A Finnish citizen having entered the country must notify the register
office if his/her intended stay in the country exceeds three months. The
register office will update his/her data in the Population Information
System (Act 661/2009). A foreign citizen may enter Finland provided he/she
holds a required valid visa, residence permit or residence permit for an
employed or self-employed person, unless he/she is an EU or EEA citizen or
unless otherwise provided by an international agreement binding Finland
(Aliens Act 301/2004). An EU or EEA citizen may stay in the country
without a separate permit for three months, after which his/her stay in
the country requires justifications and registration with the register
office. The register office enters the reported information about the
domicile of a foreign citizen into the Population Information System if
the person receives a municipality of domicile and a permanent place of
residence in it in Finland as defined in the Act on the Municipality of
Domicile (201/1994). The length of employment or studying from entry into
the country or the length of employment contract must be two years for a
foreign citizen to receive the right to a place of domicile.

Emigration

Persons emigrating from the country must submit a notice of change of address in the same way as persons who migrate within the country (Acts
661/2009, 201/1994). Persons who move to live abroad for more than one year are primarily regarded as emigrants. An exception to this are
Finnish diplomats and persons working in development co-operation, etc. (Act on the Municipality of Domicile 201/1994). In accordance with an
agreement between the Nordic countries, a period of residence of less than six months is not regarded as a move (Act on the Municipality of
Domicile 201/1994, Decree and Treaty 96/2006). When a person moves from one Nordic country to another, he/she must report his/her move to the
local register authority of the country of entry, which will decide whether or not the person is registered as resident in the country of entry.
The register authority of the country of entry informs the person concerned and the register authority of the country of exit about its
decision. The date when the person has been entered into the local population register of the country of entry is recorded as the date of
emigration in the population register of the country of exit (Act on the Municipality of Domicile 201/1994, Decree and International Treaty
96/2006).

Net migration

Net migration between immigration and emigration in 1945 to 1970:
1940 population, corrected population for the years 1941 to 1949,
1951 to 1951 and 1961 to 1969. Annual population increase is derived
from these. Calculated net migration is the difference of population
increase and natural increase.

Net migration

Net migration is the difference of immigration and emigration.

Population increase

Population growth is calculated as the difference of population numbers,
so it includes natural increase, migration and population correction.
Years 1940-1949 Replaced rounded figures with exact figures.

Population

The population refers to the permanent resident population of the
country. The resident population of Finland on 31 December is derived
from the Population Information System maintained by the Population
Register Centre. Those persons who according to the Population
Information System had a legal domicile in Finland on 31 December belong
to the permanent resident population in the country regardless of their
nationality, as do Finnish nationals residing temporarily abroad.
Years 1940-1949 Replaced rounded figures with exact figures.

Marriages

Marriages refer to marriages contracted by females permanently resident
in Finland, unless otherwise indicated. The number of males and females
who contracted marriage is not equal because the number of marriages
contracted between females permanently resident in Finland and males
living permanently abroad differs from the number of marriages
contracted between males permanently resident in Finland and females
living permanently abroad.

Divorces

The divorce statistics are based on data on granted decrees of divorce
transmitted to the Population Information System by district courts. The
statistics also include cases where a permanent resident of Finland is
granted a divorce by a foreign court. If the divorce is granted abroad, it
must be reported to the register keeper for registration of divorce.
Exceptions are divorces granted to Finnish citizens in Sweden, on which
the Swedish register keeper notifies the Finnish counterpart directly.